Culture and Socialisation — Sociology STD 11 Humanities — Question

Cognitive-Ideas and beliefs: Normative-Norms (Value, norms, sanctions). Customs or normative something is right or wrong-not an idea of something.Cognitive, myths, superstition, belief, customs, stories (mostly not true):

1. Ideas etc. which refer to the thinking of the people, our understanding, how we absorb all information we get from the society.
2. Little tradition: It is transmitted orally from generation to generation in the form of songs/ plays, stories (folklores) etc. It moves in illiterate and rural societies.
3. Great tradition: It is transmitted from generation to generation through written work. Usually in literate societies ideas are recorded, written down and are available to us in the form of books etc.
4. It is the cognitive dimension of culture which helps us to comprehend and relate to the societies.
5. Little and great tradition can be converted into each other.
6. Universalisation-converting great to little tradition.

Normative: It deals with controlling people's behaviour by rules, norms, customs, values. It is basically different ways of controlling deviant behaviour. To make society disciplined, to behave in a particular way etc.